They are the founders and gravediggers of empires, gods and demons, heroes and cowards.
From Augustus Octavian's iron-fisted foundation laying to Constantine's cross and the reshaping of the empire, this book takes you into the power vortex of the Roman imperial power and witnesses the ups and downs of a thousand-year empire in the hands of different emperors.
You will see Tiberius struggling between exile and the throne, that taciturn man who was swallowed up by responsibility all his life, coming to an end in the loneliness of Capri; you will see the madness and fear of Caligula, a young tyrant who was backlashed by power; you will see the humbleness and counterattack of Claudius, how the cripple who was treated as a clown by his family became the shrewdest manager of the empire; you will see the flames and art of Nero, how an emperor lit Rome with his own hands and played the harp on the ruins.
There are also Vespasian's pragmatism, Trajan's conquest, Hadrian's Great Wall, Marcus Aurelius's philosophical contemplation, Caracalla's bloody tyranny, Diocletian's partition of the four emperors, and the moment when Constantine looked up at the cross at the Milvian Bridge. History here is not a cold chronology, but a flesh-and-blood person, between power, desire, fear and ideals, completing a destiny they cannot choose.
This is not official history, this is the story of a more real person than official history.
